That could be interesting. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I have been talking to someone who just put GPS in her WH's car, but he found it. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Poor thing, but at least all she wanted was hard proof of what she already knows.

I passed. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I'm safe for 2 more years. This summer I have to do CPR and neonatal resucitation, but next year I have no renewals at all. I'll have to tell you later why I had so much fun at class, but right now I'm tired and stupid.

By the way, Believer, it's good that you took BLS and CPR; there are people in this world walking around today that are alive only because of some bystander who came to the rescue when the victim collapsed, and used training that, in some cases, had been learned years before and never thought about since. Good for you. I'll try to have my heart attack or stroke in your part of the commune! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

woo hoo tl

CONGRATULATIONS !!!

party party party <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


so.....

when do we move into the commune?????????????? lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Is February too soon?

Congrats to you, too, AW. At least I think so. You are happy about your new status, aren't you?

Well, just take any combination of congratulations and condolences that suits you. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Kissing babies sounds like fun. Next thing we know, you'll be the new premier. Aussie will come home and be Mr. Premier's-husband.

Oh no no not me neak!! lol

I'm only doing this until the party gets over the Premier resigning, chooses a new one which I hope happens by Monday, and the industrial dispute is resolved ..I'd say March ..I hope!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Then back to happy motherhood and if I had my way SAHM!! sighhhhhhhh <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

We have still heard nothing from our men. I don't know if thats good or bad or what.
Frankly I'm a bit nervous about asking for any more info.
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

ever get the feeling that people are avoiding you for some reason? thats what we feel like is happening but no one wants to ask... we're just CA's I guess. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

AW - I know the waiting with no contact has got to be awful. Glad to see you getting involved in stuff.

Aussie will be popping back in here any day now. He always contacts you when he can, so we know that he CAN'T.

Hugs and blessings to you and your family.

B

its that CAN'T that is worrying of course. I know you do understand that one.

Keeping busy is a Godsend...too busy to think & brood and get panicky.

The trouble with living in limbo is that it gets comfortable! you dont have to DO anything much for your M but on the other hand you also have to watch yourself from getting selfish.
You end up making every decision re family & home & kids and do work and jobs around the home you never wanted to. I guess some women would find it wonderful, it just sucks for me.
I dont want to do it all by myself.
Maybe I'm way to old fashioned ..weird huh? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Got a promotion effective September. Am really struggling. So much struggling. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

So, today, I accepted another promotion in a different department of my state's civil service employment ranks. Same money but a higher job classification with the probability of another promotion in about 1 year.

I am stressed. To the point of having intestinal 'difficulties'. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I feel horrible. Digestive tract not happy. Weather has been so flakey that my head hurts and my cough is coming back. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

And I have to make a costume for my son, so he can be Poseidon tomorrow.

Mustn't play favorites, so a quick goodnight to the FHP aisle, too.

Rella, promotion <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> intestinal difficulties/cough <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />.

Poseidon? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Nighty-night to Councillor AW, too.

I finally found my reading glasses, but wasn't wearing them right at the moment. I wished I had when at first glance it appeared that Believer had comforted Councillor AW with the reassurance that "Aussie will be pooping back in here any day now." Sigh.

I'd get my glasses if I weren't going to bed.

well good news is that we have chosen a new Premier and that the politics are basically over ..just need to get a pay rise for our members now!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I broke Aussies new PC printer 2 nights ago <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> printing off all the papers for the faction meetings!!! Had to run out & buy him another one <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

I guess you could always join the commune. I hear there's going to be free nursing care...by [b][/b]somebody or other! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Carefully recreate each scratch & mark.

Like the car commercial where the mom grunges up a new teddy bear so the little girl thinks she found her lost one.

(He'll probably know anyway. It will be the first thing he notices. "Who busted my printer and got me this lousy replacement?" And five minutes later, "Hey, who is that big kid over there? Is he the neighbor's?" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> )

I think there are more <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> here than on any other thread.

Popping or pooping, I don't care how Aussie comes, just that he does, and SOON!!!!!!!!!!!

There are lots of sayings like that, such as poop or get off the pot. So hurry up, Aussie!!!!!!!

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

C,
My cough has gone on for nearly three weeks. Hope yours doesn't last that long. Sorry for the stress.

T&L,
I went to the mountains with family last weekend. I thought I would have net access, but the it turned out the phone line (for dialup) had been disconnectied.
Darn, thought I would have lots and lots of time to post. I even had things to say. ( I think, but my memory.... you know..... )

I have been busy at home, and at work. Too much going on these days - the world is crazy. I think we don't take time to sit and think, and sit and talk like we should.

I've been reading - skimming really. I know I have missed some things. May I answer a few questions though?

We were in the mountains about 40 miles from our home. Small town, small house owned by my parents. We went to play in the snow, and it snowed Sunday afternoon - about 6 inches. We went up on Friday evening, and came home Monday evening. There is a church there for us to attend, so it makes it nice. I don't like to miss church, some of us need it more than others. (meaning me)

It was a really good time, maybe our last, since I think Mom wants to sell the place, and I can't afford to buy it.

As far as moving to Montana -
NO !

I lived in Canada for a while, and I got my fill of cold. Some say you can dress for it, while you can't do anything about heat, but I am a child of the desert, and I think I'll stay where I am. 40 miles from snow is great. Play in it, visit it, and then go home where you don't have to drive in it, or shovel it.

If I did move join you, at least I would have wonderful neighbors. There's that at least.

I like where I live. It's big enough to have everything, but small enough to have a low crime rate, and very little polution. Home prices are shooting way up, way way up. Probaly about half of what you pay though.

Now, I have something to say. As it often is with me, it's not something new. (And BTW, this is for all of you, not just T&L.)

You already know it, but I want to remind you.

(I have been gone a few hours, we started counting stuff.)

Jesus was the master teacher. It is said of him that he "increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man." We expect that we will have to do the same if we want to get anywhere. He taught with words, but also with example. His example was powerful.

One of the things that he encouraged us to do, was to "“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

I have been thinking about that one. All of us struggle, and all of us doubt some of the time. I see encouraging posts, but I also see struggles. I have been thinking about what he meant by his statement, since it often seems so hard.

I think it was an encouragement to greater faith. We don't get the rest, unless we come into him.

Often we look at the future, and we ask "what will happen to me?" We worry about it. Peter had doubt during the trial. His doubt caused him to deny the Lord. Later, full of faith he directed the church and carried out the lords work as a fearless servant.

How do we get from where we are, to that point of greater faith?

I think it comes in more than one way.

Living as he taught -
He said that "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." When we know we are doing God's will, it strengthens our faith, and we know we will get help.

Prayer -
Talking to someone helps you get to know them. When you feel God's love, and when you know he is listening, and that he cares, it is also easier to know you will get help.

Helping others -
You know he loves all his children. Blessings are there for those that love and help his children when they can.

Attending Church -
The best being that ever lived organized the church because random individual goodness is not enough in the fight against evil. We get help, and we help others when we attend.

Don't give in to doubt and fear -
You know we are in a test. We were not sent here to fail, and we need not fail. We have our example in a leader that did not say "go thither," but in one that said "come, follow me." He lives, and that means all that he promised is possible.

It's all the same. AW's struggle to wait for Aussie to come home. You and the money problems. Neak, and the A. Neak sis as a single parent. C and her job, CC alone trying to make decisions. AD divorced, wondering what to do.

He told us to ask, and it would be given.

Think about that.

Think about who said that to us.

" O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!"

I have often wondered why I "would not"
Would not take him at his word
Would not obey him
Would not ask
Would not believe
Would not have faith

I encourage you to keep on doing what you know is right.
Keep being an example
Keep praying
Keep helping others
Keep increasing your faith

Minnie Louise Haskins wrote a lovely poem about faith:

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
“Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown!”
And he replied:
“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”

So often it is that we want to know -
When what we need is to trust.

Keep praying, make decisions as best you can, and follow through with all your heart. ( As I know you do.)

I encourage you - from one who knows he lives, to another who does also.

SS

Hi SS--Glad you're back. Sorry about the cold. At least you got it at the right time of year. I always resent colds that occur in the summer when it's warm. It just seems kinda off to have one then! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I hate to say this, because it seems to worry my daughters when I'm not my stolid little fire-plug, sturdy self...but I'm having a lot of trouble with faith these days. Not doubting that God IS, but simply unable to find what and where He is for me. I'm sure this, too, will pass...but the transition time is a, um, a--well, let's just say if it ever gave birth, it would have PUPPIES! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

On my way across the lake to say hi to everbody and deliver to my dad the very large-print copy of the Bible lesson for church tomorrow which HP scans and prints up for him every week. Then bedtime. My highlight of the whole week. And it's almost here. Hubba hubba. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I hate to say this, because it seems to worry my daughters when I'm not my stolid little fire-plug, sturdy self...but I'm having a lot of trouble with faith these days. Not doubting that God IS, but simply unable to find what and where He is for me. I'm sure this, too, will pass...but the transition time is a, um, a--well, let's just say if it ever gave birth, it would have PUPPIES!

Would you be willing to talk to me a little more about this. I would like to better understand what you mean.

Sweet dreams.

SS

After listening to Neak joyfully (verbally) contemplate tonight's anticipated release from her MD-mandated "pelvic rest" ( <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> ), I had occasion to hug her good-bye before I leave. (Well, it's not like I was planning to stick around and give advice. She's got me beat all hollow in that department, anyway! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />) After our embrace, I told her, "If you're hoping for some action tonight, I suggest you change your shirt, there, girlie. I think that one sat a little too long in the washing machine." <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Sour laundry ain't Chanel #5, is all I can tell you. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l